What is BreachSmart ?

BreachSmart is:

As security advisors and pen testers, we recognize that security awareness training is a must. As humans we understand that training is really unpleasant. That's why we created BreachSmart &dash; short videos and training tools to raise awareness, with modern attention spans in mind.

Key Features:

Short:BreachSmart is short (~1-minute-long) training videos, to be delivered regularly (e.g. weekly) and other digestible tools and content to help raise and maintain the security awareness of your employees without disruption.

Simple:BreachSmart is also a simple-to-use platform for distribution of content and a tracking system to monitor training progress.

Security Awareness: Employees will learn to avoid the security pitfalls that can put your organization at risk of a security breach.

Reinforcement: They will receive on-going, low impact, reinforcement to help ensure that security awareness stays high.

Tracking: Tracking allows you to monitor employee training and to target those who need additional encouragement.

Auditable: Tracking also allows you to provide evidence that training is being performed on a continual basis.

Fresh: We are always adding new content and tools to keep employees engaged.

Featured Content

BeSecure Training is a library of 24 short (~1 minute long) videos, including one 15-minute optional intro/onboarding video. It is organized as series, to be sent regularly (e.g. weekly) to inform employees about topics like phishing, pretext calling, Internet disclosure, tail-gating, planted media, and more. Raise and maintain awareness without disrupting to productivity.

Sample content:

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BreachSmart Training Platform

BreachSmart is a simple training platform that allows you to create on-going training campaigns to email your employees links to videos for them watch, to track progress, and report on success.

To launch a training campaign as simple as this:

Upload and/or select users to train

Pick a training video series from the content library.

Select a frequency (daily, weekly).

Press go and monitor progress.

Identify and Isolate employees that have not watched videos, and designate them for additional reinforcement.

Credibility

Our training content was designed by the experienced pen-testers from Illumant. Illumant is a seasoned security assessment and penetration testing firm with approximately 20 years of experience providing pen testing, social engineering, and security assessment services to financial institutions, hospitals, cities, tech companies, energy companies ... all verticals. In its security penetration testing engagements Illumant conducts simulated cyber-attacks against its clients and leveraging gaps in employee security awareness to propagate attacks. The simulated cyber-attacks mimic the attacks crafted by real black hat hackers. As such, Illumant is keenly aware of the gaps in education that can create vulnerabilities and that put organizations at risk.

Illumant has provided in-person training based on the materials in BreachSmart to Fortune 500 companies.

Given our experience, this training is designed to:

harden the employees against cyber-attacks

help employees learn to identify and avoid cyber threats like phishing and social engineering

to help employees protect their employers.

Illumant's experience is invaluable the relevance of our training videos.

Learn more about Illumant and its assessment and pen-testing services here.